The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-13
mrs. Logan.s Pension.

the House are displaying to the bill giving
Mrs. Logan a pension of $1,000 per year win
not be likely to result much to their advan-
tage in the future. Congressman C. c. Mat
son of Indiada, chairman of the House com
mittee ON invalid pensions takes the lead in
the opposition and will do his best to secure
an adverse report upon it by that committee,
but it is hardly possible that he can succeed.
The ground of opposition is that it estab-
fishes bad precedent. The opposition has
sufficient strength to prevent its immediate
consideration by unanimous consent, and if it
is..compelled to go through the regular course
of reference TO a committee, to be then re-
ported and placed with the hundreds of 9TH
er bills on the calendar,its chance of passage
may be very much injured, If not entirely
lost. The short time remaining Of the ses-
sion will increase the difficulty for obtaining
consideration.
Postal Changes.
The following Star route change is an
nounced in Maine:
Route 242-Bath to Parker's Head. Leave Bath
daily except Sundays at 3.15 .. IN. Arrive at
Parker's Head by 5.15 p. mlLeaye Parker's Head
daily except Sundays at $50 a. m. Arrive at
Bath by 1890 a. IN.
Augusta Nj. Bowie has been commissioned
postmaster at South Danyille.
The Nicaragua Canal.
The Nicaragua resolutions which are be-
fore the Senate, look to revival OF the pro-
ject in which Gen. Grant was interested. The
opponents claim that the proposition involves
a protectorate over Nicaragua.
Col. Mosby Disturbed.
1t is reported that Col. Mosby proposes to
ask Gen. PleasantOn why he had reason to
believe during the war that he (Mosby) could
be bought to betray the Confederate cause.
This inquiry is based upon discovery which
Mosby has just made in the Confederate
archives here.
The Trade Dollars.
There is a better prospect that a bill to re-
deem the trade dollars will pass than there
has BEEN The House committee on coinage
has agreed to the Senate bill with an amend
ment limiting the time within which the
trade dollars may be presented for redemp
tion to six months.
The Electoral Count Bill.
The conferees ON the part of the two
Houses of Congress today reached a formal
agreement on the Elecotral Countbill and ex
pect to present their report tomorrow.
Anot other Judge for the Second
District.
The House passed bill authorizing the
appointment of an additional United States
Judge in the second circuit, which includes
New York, Connecticut and Vermont.
The Anti Mormon Bill.
The anti-Mormon bill as it passed the
House today, by the adoption OF the Tucker
substitute for the Edmunds Senate bill,
makes a lawful husband or wife Of any per-
son prosecuted for bigamy, polygamy or un-
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against the accused, and further provides
for the registration of all marriages, making
it msdemeanor for any person to violate
the provisions relative to such registration
1t annuls all Territorial laws providing for
the Identification of the votes of electors at
any election, and also all laws comforting on
Territorial courts the power to determine
divorce cases, and abolishes woman suffrage
in the Territory of Utah. Penalties are pre-
scribed for unlawful intercourse, and polyg-
amy is defined as marriage between one per-
son of one sex and more than one person Of
another sex, and is declared to be felony.
Financial corporations known as the Church
of Latter Days Saints and Perpetual Emil
grafton Fund Company, are dissolved, and
and the attorney general is directed to wind
them up by process Of the court, and all laws
! for organization of militia Of Territory, and
| the creation of NauvOs Legion are annulled.
| Poligimists are made ineligible to vote and
| the test oath is presented to all persons de-
| string to vote that they will obey the laws OF
the United States, and especially laws in re-
| spect to crimes defined in this and the origi-
| nal Edmunds' act. The bill provides for i'm
mediate appointment by the President of all
| judges and selectmen of the county and pro-
bate courts, and by the governor of all JUS
| tices of peace. sheriffs, constables and other
county and district officers. The bill as
| amended by the adoption of substitutes will
| now be transmitted to the Senate for the ac-
| ton of that body.